Jungle Cubs (partially lost English audio from VHS exclusive footage of ABC animated series based on "The Jungle Book" Disney film; 1997-1998)

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The title card of the series.

Status: Partially Lost

Jungle Cubs was an American animated series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation from 1996-1998 for the ABC, with reruns on the Disney Channel until 2001. It was later reaired in 2012-2013 on Disney Junior, and also aired in Latin America and in the UK on Disney Cinemagic. The show was based of the 1967 Disney film The Jungle Book, but animal characters itself was set to young age. It featured Baloo Bagheera, Shere Khan, Kaa, King Louie, and Hathi. It ran for 13 episode, in a span of 2 seasons each, with a 22 minute runtime featuring two segments each.[1]

Jungle Cubs was animated by Walt Disney Television Animation Pty. Ltd., Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd. Toon City Animation, Inc. and Sunmin Image Pictures Co. Ltd., with Studio B Productions as the animation pre-production studio of the series.

From 1997-1998, the series received 3 VHS releases in the UK, Australia and New Zealand: "Born to be Wild", which featured 3 episodes, "Once Upon a Vine" which featured 5 episodes, and "Monkey Business", which featured 3 episodes, with a total of 11 episodes altogether. It featured newly animated footage of the characters telling the stories to Mowgli, these later received a DVD release in 2003 it is unknown whenever not these have the scenes or not. Despite these home media releases, only "Born to be Wild" was the only one with it's English dub found untill march 2022 when "Once upon a vin" was found. However, the rest of the footage is accounted for in the French dub of the series.

Status

In 2018, the French versions of all three VHS releases were uploaded,[2] along with the English version of "Born to be Wild" by Jacob Svennson, albeit in low quality. In August 2021, a better quality version of "Born to be Wild" was uploaded to the Internet Archive although in Spanish. On March 04TH 2022 Once Upon A Vine was Uploaded to the Intenet Archivec by The Cartoonian Archive. The rest of the English dub has yet to surface as of March 2022.

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The Spanish version of "Born to be Wild."

The English version of "Once Upon a Vine."

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